The partner of a mother, aged 29, who was fatally injured last Sunday at her home, has been remanded in custody after being charged with her murder.

A 32-year-old man with schizophrenia has gone on trial charged with murdering his mother at their Co Kilkenny home last year.

A harbour authority has lodged objections to a controversial €3.5 million fish farming project in West Cork by one of the biggest aquaculture companies in the world.

A PSYCHIATRIC report has been ordered for a 28-year-old man charged yesterday with the murder of a Cork father-of-five.